LAMP Stack

LAMP is the acronym for the combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL (or MariaDB), and PHP. It is the best-documented and one of the most widely deployed technology stacks in the world.

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Core concept

Four proven open-source components that are perfectly aligned with one another. Almost every web host worldwide offers this stack as standard, guaranteeing extreme portability.

Assessment

• Use case: WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and millions of custom applications.
• Advantage: An inexhaustible supply of resources, libraries, and specialists available. Proven stability over two decades.
• Limitation: In highly scalable cloud environments, more modern alternatives (such as Nginx instead of Apache, or Go instead of PHP) are often preferred.

Related topics

• Tech Stack, the stack context for LAMP Stack.
• PHP, the comparison tool for LAMP Stack.
• WordPress, the comparison tool for LAMP Stack.